- Your arsenal is a near-endless supply of mundane items scattered across the ravaged island, including wooden oars, machetes, and the occasional gun or two. If you're feeling creative, you can combine certain items to make powerful new weapons, a la Dead Rising 2, provided you have the right blueprints.

- The four unlucky people you will be controlling are described as a leader, a tank, an assassin, and a jack-of-all-trades. Each of these characters brings something unique to the profession of zombie killing and can be further specialized by leveling up and progressing down one of three skill trees. The leader, for instance, can be specialized to boost his party's performance or maximize his effectiveness with the island's limited gun supply.

- Techland wants to give you plenty of options for dealing with the deceased by loading up each character with plenty of active skills. These skills can then be used in concert with other player's skills to devastating effect, such as using the tank's ability to knock enemies prone followed by the assassin's ability to quickly slay foes.

- The quest structure in Dead Island is being designed to flow at your own pace. The entirety of the island will be open from the start, and you can stick to the main quest line or explore this open world and deviate down the numerous side quests as you see fit.

- In the twisted world of Dead Island, you and your cohorts are not superheroes. You're just ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances, not unlike the unfortunate protagonists found in some of the game's inspirations--including the Walking Dead graphic novels and the Lost television series.

Re: Dead Island

Presented in an official character that we will see (and control) in Dead Island. It's called Xian Mei, is a woman of Chinese origin and is a waitress at the Royal Palm Resort.

Xian is an athletic person and smart too.The first assignment that was given is to do various chores at the hotel, then took up his duties as a receptionist. There are also a couple of images that depict the character announced, you can see them below: